BECOMING

In the movies sometimes change seems to come so natural and easy. And the characters so often appear totally adjusted to such transitions. I’m generalizing I realize for there are movies that do a good job of depicting the trauma of becoming.

Regardless of the transition or obstacles, we all are aware that nothing ever stays the same. It doesn’t keep up from making plans or presuming upon life or even deciding we can control life. That is a wonderful illusion, just seldom it is really more than just an illusion.

For me there are various kinds of becoming. We are always in a start of evolving on so many levels. Some just never bring a balance to that kind of change. They focus on their careers, their families or whatever else is the lord of their lives.

On a spiritual level becoming is an incomplete process in this life. We will never become what we are destined to be in eternity. That is because we shall be spirit in this existence with all the many enhanced facets we can only speculate about in this life.

That is one of the inhibitors to knowing and truly becoming in terms of the Lord’s will for our lives. We can truly reach out into the vastness of eternity and full grasp what will adorn our lives.

When I have heard people attempt it they often end up giving it only a human frame of reference. By that I mean they think in terms of streets of gold, halos and any number of other “saintly” images that encumber our vision.

Being a writer I have lent my imagination to such thoughts, but I do know they are my thoughts and not fact. So I don’t pretend they are a complete revelation of that glorious time of life.

What I do know is that we are promise in Christ to have eternal life. Oh some might debate the fact that even the unredeemed have eternal life. But that is hardly a type of eternal life I would want to think waited in eternity.

For me the foundation of hope resides in he simple joy of understanding that becoming shall never be complete in this life. So I don’t view the path I take will following the Lord to be a place where I shall reach my place of having “arrived” in this life. Whatever I know, whatever I think I know, in this life I know it is a mere flicker of reality in terms of eternity.

Unto those who clamor for perfection in this life, who think they can become an unblemished saint while still breathing, they are entitled to chase their illusions. Meanwhile for those who understand that it is only when our hand touches that of our redeeming we will know what we were meant to become. I try to let that be my focus with each step. Sometimes I do better at accept that than others. But then there is always tomorrow.